Tuen Mun

English

Etymology

From Cantonese 屯門 (tyun⁴ mun⁴).

Proper noun

Tuen Mun

1. An area and town in Tuen Mun district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
   • 2019 July 13, Amy Qin, Ezra Cheung, “Hong Kong Protest Against Mainland Chinese Traders Turns Violent”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-13, ASIA PACIFIC‎^[2]:

     Last weekend, thousands of protesters rallied in the Hong Kong neighborhood of Tuen Mun against a group of middle-aged mainland women who they accused of causing a disturbance in the local park with loud singing and provocative dancing.

   • 2019 November 15, Melissa Van Brunnersum, “Two German citizens detained in Hong Kong”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[3], archived from the original on 15 November 2019, News‎^[4]:

     Hong Kong police said they had detained two foreign men during what police there call a "dispersal operation" against a group of demonstrators gathered in Tuen Mun, Reuters reported.

   • 2023 January 10, Hillary Leung, “Hong Kong police alerted over video of two men ‘surfing’ roof of moving MTR train”, in Hong Kong Free Press‎^[5], archived from the original on 1 October 2024, Hong Kong:

     Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation has alerted police after two men filmed themselves on top of a moving train in Tuen Mun, a stunt known as train surfing.

2. A district of Hong Kong.
3. A rural committee in Tuen Mun district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

Synonyms

• Castle Peak

Translations

area in Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 屯門／屯门 (tyun⁴ mun⁴)

district of Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 屯門區／屯门区 (tyun⁴ mun⁴ keoi¹)

rural committee

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 屯門鄉事委員會／屯门乡事委员会 (tyun⁴ mun⁴ hoeng¹ si⁶ wai² jyun⁴ wui^6-2)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Tuen Mun”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3231, column 2: “Formerly called Castle Peak.”
• Tuen Mun at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.